Abracadabra - (n.) A mystical word or collocation of letters written as
in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to ward off fever. At
present the word is used chiefly in jest to denote something without
meaning; jargon.

Acacia - (n.) A roll or bag, filled with dust, borne by Byzantine
emperors, as a memento of mortality. It is represented on medals.

Acacias - (pl. ) of Acacia

Acaciae - (pl. ) of Acacia

Acacia - (n.) A genus of leguminous trees and shrubs. Nearly 300 species
are Australian or Polynesian, and have terete or vertically compressed
leaf stalks, instead of the bipinnate leaves of the much fewer species
of America, Africa, etc. Very few are found in temperate climates.

Acacia - (n.) The inspissated juice of several species of acacia; --
called also gum acacia, and gum arabic.

Acacin - (n.) Alt. of Acacine

Acacine - (n.) Gum arabic.

Academe - (n.) An academy.

Academial - (a.) Academic.

Academian - (n.) A member of an academy, university, or college.

Academic - (a.) Alt. of Academical

Academical - (a.) Belonging to the school or philosophy of Plato; as, the
Academic sect or philosophy.

Academical - (a.) Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of
learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from
scientific.

Academic - (n.) One holding the philosophy of Socrates and Plato; a
Platonist.

Academic - (n.) A member of an academy, college, or university; an
academician.

Academically - (adv.) In an academical manner.

Academicals - (n. pl.) The articles of dress prescribed and worn at some
colleges and universities.

Academician - (n.) A member of an academy, or society for promoting
science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal
Academy of arts.

Academician - (n.) A collegian.

Academicism - (n.) A tenet of the Academic philosophy.

Academicism - (n.) A mannerism or mode peculiar to an academy.

Academism - (n.) The doctrines of the Academic philosophy.

Academist - (n.) An Academic philosopher.

Academist - (n.) An academician.

Academies - (pl. ) of Academy

Academy - (n.) A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero
Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical
conferences; hence, the school of philosophy of which Plato was head.

Academy - (n.) An institution for the study of higher learning; a college
or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding
a rank between a college and a common school.

Academy - (n.) A place of training; a school.

Academy - (n.) A society of learned men united for the advancement of the
arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science;
as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences;
academies of literature and philology.

Academy - (n.) A school or place of training in which some special art is
taught; as, the military academy at West Point; a riding academy; the
Academy of Music.

Acadian - (a.) Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia.

Acadian - (n.) A native of Acadie.

Acajou - (n.) The cashew tree; also, its fruit. See Cashew.

Acajou - (n.) The mahogany tree; also, its timber.

Acalephs - (pl. ) of Acalephan

Acalephans - (pl. ) of Acalephan

Acaleph - (n.) Alt. of Acalephan

Acalephan - (n.) One of the Acalephae.

Acalephae - (n. pl.) A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or
jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they
possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.

Acalephoid - (a.) Belonging to or resembling the Acalephae or
jellyfishes.

Acalycine - (a.) Alt. of Acalysinous

Acalysinous - (a.) Without a calyx, or outer floral envelope.

Acanth - (n.) Same as Acanthus.

Acantha - (n.) A prickle.

Acantha - (n.) A spine or prickly fin.

Acantha - (n.) The vertebral column; the spinous process of a vertebra.

Acanthaceous - (a.) Armed with prickles, as a plant.

Acanthaceous - (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the family of
plants of which the acanthus is the type.